Authors: Annelie Wendeberg
Tags: #Anna Kronberg, #victorian, #London, #Thriller, #Sherlock Holmes
(1) Photo is a courtesy of
Magnus Wendeberg
(copyright protected)
(2)
Cheapside, London,
between ca. 1890 and 1900. Title from the Detroit Publishing Ca., Catalogue J - foreign section, Detroit, Michigan. 1905. Print no 10784. Forms part of: Views of the British Isles, in the Photochrome print collection. Credit: Library of Congress, USA.
(3)
Entrance Gates, Guy's Hospital,
late 19
th
or early 20
th
century. From a postcard without further information on its back. Author’s archives.
(4)
Cliveden from below Cookham Ferry.
Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J - foreign section, print no. 10643. Forms part of: Views of the British Isles, in the Photochrome print collection. Credits: Library of Congress, USA
(5)
Hampton Waterworks.
From:
The Illustrated London News,
July 19
th
, 1884
(6)
Zooloea ramigera 200x (1); Zooloea ramigera 500x (2); Spirillum undula 500x (3).
From:
Verfahren zur Untersuchung und zum Konservieren der Bakterien,
by Dr Robert Koch, Volume I Plate II, Figure 1-3. Credit: Wellcome Library London
(7)
The Flower Walk, Regent’s Park.
From:
The Queen’s London. A Pictorial and Descriptive Record of the Streets, Buildings, Parks, and Scenery of the Great Metropolis in the fifty-ninth year of the Reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria.
Publisher: Cassell & Company, London. 1896. Author’s archives.
(8)
Chertsey.
From:
Saint Annne’s Hill. A poem,
by P. Cunnigham. Chertsey, 1833. Credit: British Library, London.
(9)
The amphitheatre in the medical school of Montpellier, France, 1940
.
From:
Edition du Photo-Hall, Montpellier. Credit: Wellcome Library London
(10)
Report on the cholera outbreak in the Parish of St. James, Westminster, during the autumn of 1854, presented to the vestry by the Cholera Inquiry Committee, July 1855,
by Dr John Snow. Credit: Wellcome Library London
(11)
Blackfriars bridge, London
.
From:
The Queen’s London. A Pictorial and Descriptive Record of the Streets, Buildings, Parks, and Scenery of the Great Metropolis in the fifty-ninth year of the Reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria.
Publisher: Cassell & Company, London. 1896. Author’s archives.
(12)
Dudley St., Seven Dials,
Engraving 1872, by Gustave Dore.
From:
London: a pilgrimage. Credit: Wellcome Library London
(13) Detail of
The Sack-'Em-Up-Man,
by H.Meredith Williams.
From:
The Sack-'Em-Up-Men
, 1928. Credit: Wellcome Library London
(14)
Execution of the notorious William Burke, the murderer who supplied Dr. Knox with subjects.
From a contemporary print, c. 1820’s. Credit: Wellcome Library London
(15)
Asylum for Criminal Lunatics, Broadmoor, Sandhurst, Berkshire
.
From:
Illustrated London News.
1867. Volume 51, page 208. Credit: Wellcome Library London
(16)
Wood engraving depicting cramped and squalid housing conditions.
From:
Sanitary progress:- being the fifth report of the National Philanthropic Association ... for the promotion of social and salutiferous improvements, street cleanliness; and the employment of the poor : so that able-bodied men may be prevented from burdening the parish rates, and preserved independent of workhouse alms and degradation.
1850. National Philanthropic Association (Great Britain), Second edition Lettering: (No. 4.) No. 7, PHEASANT COURT, GRAY'S INN LANE - Second-Floor, Front Room. Credit: Wellcome Library London
(17)
Institut für Infektionskrankheiten. Robert Koch's Institute.
The old building.
Credit: Wellcome Library London
(18)
Pöppelmannbrücke, Grimma, circa 1890.
From:
Grimma, Archivbilder.
Credit: Stadtbibliothek J.G. Säume, Grimma.
(19)
King's College, Cambridge.
From
:
Le Keux’s Memorials of Cambridge: a series of vies of the colleges, halls, and public buildings, engraved by J. Le Keux; with historical and descriptive accounts by Thomas Wright
. Published by Tilt & Bogue, London, 1841.
(20)
Perspective view of a workhouse for 300 paupers.
From:
Annual report of the Poor Law Commissioners for England and Wales,
by The Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners, 1835-1847. Credit: Wellcome Library London
(21)
Crowded dark streets full of dead and dying people, bodies are being loaded onto a cart; symbolising an outbreak of cholera.
Watercolour by R. Cooper. Late 19
th
, early 20
th
century. Credit: Wellcome Library London
(22)
Plan of the Men's Division at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum.
1885.
From:
Reports upon Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, with statistical tables, for the year 1885.
Credit: Wellcome Library London
— THE FALL —
(1)
Detail of “The August Moon” by Cecil Lawson, 1880.
From:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964.
(2)
Neither man or animal is immune to the plague
. Illustrator: Weiditz, Hans. From:
Von der Artzney bayder Glück, des guten und wederwertigen
, by Petrarca, Francesco. Publisher: Augspurg: Heynrich Steyner, 1532. Credit: US National Library of Medicine.
(3)
Kensington Gardens, the fountains, between 1890 and 1900.
Title from the Detroit Publishing Ca., Catalogue J - foreign section, Detroit, Michigan. 1905. Print no 1506. Forms part of: Views of the British Isles, in the Photochrome print collection. Credit: Library of Congress, USA.
(4)
Britain’s motorised war car with it’s developer, Frederick Richard Simms, 1902.
Unknown photographer. Credit: Wikipedia.
(5)
Corner of a special bacteriology laboratory in the United States Army Hospital Center Mars-sur-Allier, Nievre, France 1918.
Credit: US National Library of Medicine.
(6)
Van Leeuwenhoek’s protists.
Drawings of the specimens from letters published in 1700. From:
Antony van Leeuwenhoek and his ‘little animals’ Being some account on the father of protozoology and bacteriology and his multifarious discoveries in these disciplines
, Clifford Dobell (1932). Credit: Galerie de l'Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche-sur-Mer
(7)
Grosvenor Road, London.
From
:
London City Suburbs as they are to-day. Illustrated
by W. Luker from original drawings. Author: Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald. Published by Leadenhall Press, London, 1893.Credit: British Library, London.
(8)
‘La Marguerite’ leaving Tilbury.
From:
The Queen’s London. A Pictorial and Descriptive Record of the Streets, Buildings, Parks, and Scenery of the Great Metropolis in the fifty-ninth year of the Reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria.
Publisher: Cassell & Company, London. 1896. Author’s archives.
(9)
The Opium Poppy.
From
:
Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz
, by Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé . Published 1885 in Gera. Credit: Wikipedia.
(10)
The Thames, London.
From:
The Queen’s London. A Pictorial and Descriptive Record of the Streets, Buildings, Parks, and Scenery of the Great Metropolis in the fifty-ninth year of the Reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria.
Publisher: Cassell & Company, London. 1896. Author’s archives.
(11) Fig 1:
Blood of a septicaemic mouse; fig 2: White blood corpuscles from the veins of the diaphragm of a septicaemic mouse; fig4: Blood of a mouse affected with anthrax; fig 12: Section of the ear of a rabbit -parallel to the surface of the cartilage.
From:
Investigations into the etiology of traumatic infective diseases
, by Dr Robert Koch. Published by the New Sydenham Society, London. 1880. Credit: Wellcome Library London.
(12)
Kensington Palace Gardens.
From
:
London City Suburbs as they are to-day. Illustrated
by W. Luker from original drawings. Author: Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald. Published by Leadenhall Press, London, 1893.Credit: British Library, London.
(13)
The Strand, London.
From:
The Queen’s London. A Pictorial and Descriptive Record of the Streets, Buildings, Parks, and Scenery of the Great Metropolis in the fifty-ninth year of the Reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria.
Publisher: Cassell & Company, London. 1896. Author’s archives.
(14)
A treatise upon the true seat of the glanders in horses, together with the method of cure
, Étienne-Guillaume La Fosse (London: T. Osborne, 1751). Credit: US National Library of Medicine.
(15)
The Thames, Lambeth Bridge
. From:
London City Suburbs as they are to-day
. Illustrated by W. Luker from original drawings. Author: Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald. Published by Leadenhall Press, London, 1893.Credit: British Library, London.
(16)
Bacilli of Anthrax from a culture.
From:
A short history of medicine,
by C. Singer.
Publisher:
Clarendon Oxford
1928. Credit: Wellcome Library London.
(17)
The Thames at Low Tide. Mortlake, London
. From:
London City Suburbs as they are to-day
. Illustrated by W. Luker from original drawings. Author: Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald. Published by Leadenhall Press, London, 1893.Credit: British Library, London.
(18)
Juniperus communis
.
From
:
American Medical Botany,
by Jacob Bigelow. Published by Cummings and Hillard, 1820. Credit: US National Library of Medicine.
(19)
Chingford Old Church, London.
From:
The Queen’s London. A Pictorial and Descriptive Record of the Streets, Buildings, Parks, and Scenery of the Great Metropolis in the fifty-ninth year of the Reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria.
Publisher: Cassell & Company, London. 1896. Author’s archives.
(20)
Piccadilly and the Green Park, London.
From:
The Queen’s London. A Pictorial and Descriptive Record of the Streets, Buildings, Parks, and Scenery of the Great Metropolis in the fifty-ninth year of the Reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria.
Publisher: Cassell & Company, London. 1896. Author’s archives.
(21)
Feueresse Döben
.
From
: Grimma, Bilder einer Stadtgeschichte. Credits: Stadtbibliothek J.G. Säume, Grimma.
(22)
Markt Grimma
.
From
: Grimma, Bilder einer Stadtgeschichte. Credits: Stadtbibliothek J.G. Säume, Grimma.
(23) Old Thatched Lodge, Woodberry Down. From: London City Suburbs as they are to-day. Illustrated by W. Luker from original drawings. Author: Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald. Published by Leadenhall Press, London, 1893.Credit: British Library, London.
— THE JOURNEY —
(1)
Beachy Head from above, Eastbourne, England, 1890s.
Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J - foreign section, print no. 10276. Forms part of: Views of the British Isles, in the Photochrome print collection. Credits: Library of Congress, USA
(2)
Map of Sussex.
From
:
Excursions in the County of Sussex: comprising brief historical and topographical delineations; together with descriptions of the residences of the nobility and gentry, remains of antiquity, and other interesting objects of curiosity ... With fifty engravings, including a map of the county
. Published: London, 1822. Credit: British Library
(3)
Lewes Castle, Sussex.
From
:
Excursions in the County of Sussex: comprising brief historical and topographical delineations; together with descriptions of the residences of the nobility and gentry, remains of antiquity, and other interesting objects of curiosity ... With fifty engravings, including a map of the county
. Published: London, 1822. Credit: British Library
(4)
Lover’s Seat.
From
:
Picturesque Sussex. Drawings,
by S. E. Slader.
Published by S. E. Slader, London, 1881. Credit: British Library
(5)
Ticehurst private asylum.
Archive and Manuscripts Collections Ticehurst House Hospital ('Private Asylum for Insane Persons') A North View of the Asylum at Ticehurst, Sussex, c.1828-29. Credit: Wellcome Library, London.
(6)
Pier and harbour, Littlehampton, England
. Between 1890 and 1900. Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J - foreign section, print no. 11330. Forms part of: Views of the British Isles, in the Photochrome print collection. Credits: Library of Congress, USA
(7)
Seven Dials
.
From:
The Queen’s London. A Pictorial and Descriptive Record of the Streets, Buildings, Parks, and Scenery of the Great Metropolis in the fifty-ninth year of the Reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria.
Publisher: Cassell & Company, London. 1896. Author’s archives.
(8)
The Bank of England & Royal Exchange.
From:
Pictures of London. With short descriptions by A.W. Dulcken.
Author: Henry Williams Dulcken. 1892. Publisher: Ward & Lock. Credit: British Library, London.
(9)
Newgate, the central courtyard, London.
From:
The Queen’s London. A Pictorial and Descriptive Record of the Streets, Buildings, Parks, and Scenery of the Great Metropolis in the fifty-ninth year of the Reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria.
Publisher: Cassell & Company, London. 1896. Author’s archives.